C · 2025

Austin Barnes

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestC

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 187 lb
Number: #55

Born: December 28, 1989 in Riverside, CA, USA
MLB debut: May 24, 2015
Drafted: 2011, round 9
College: Arizona State
High school: Riverside Polytechnic
Salary, 2025: $3.5M

dbWAR: .5
PA: 44
AVG: .214
OBP: .233
SLG: .286
wRC+: 38

Austin Barnes is a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 44 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .214, 12.6% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .233 clip and slugged .286, for an OPS of .518, 27.9% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 79.5 mph off the bat, hit 20.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.4% of them and made contact on 71.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 38 wRC+ puts his offence 62% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -3.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.9 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2025.

wRC+38

wOBA.228

ISO.071

BB%2.3%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	7	7	2	0	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.306	14.3%
vs RHP	37	35	7	0	1	13	.200	.222	.257	.213	35.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 29 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 3.4%
Exit velocity: 79.5
Max exit velo: 105.2
Hard hit: 20.7%
Sweet spot: 37.9%
Launch angle: 2.0°

Barrel rate3.4%

Exit velocity79.5 mph

Hard hit rate20.7%

Contact rate71.4%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2025.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .245.

Situational hitting

How Austin Barnes hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	44	—	—	—	—	—	—	.214	.233	.286	.228
Bases empty · thin	24	24	5	0	0	0	9	.208	.208	.250	.200
Runner on first · thin	12	10	3	0	0	1	1	.300	.364	.400	.341
Runners on · thin	20	18	4	0	2	1	5	.222	.263	.333	.264
RISP · thin	8	8	1	0	2	0	4	.125	.125	.250	.157

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	13	44	9	0	2	0	1	14	.214	.233	.286	.071	.321	2.3%	31.8%	.228	-3.2	38	-0.1
2024	51	156	37	1	11	3	14	36	.264	.331	.307	.043	.350	9.0%	23.1%	.292	-2.5	88	0.6

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.